Chapter-2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Leave a Comment / By Kartik Mahato / October 11, 2023 1. What is the name of the poet? Kipling Wordsworth Kamlanath Stephen Spender None 2. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem. long short optimistic pessimistic None 3. What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from? bright light outside openness of trees dim light of the class children in the room None 4. What is the stunted boy reciting? the lesson from his desk Shakespeare’s poetry leaves of nature his composition None 5. What kind of life do the children living in slums have? full of love full of care and warmth Hopeless and full of struggle all of these None 6. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’. simile metaphor alliteration personification None 7. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply? slum children energetic children deceased children unhappy children None 8. Who was sitting at the back of the dim class? a girl an old man a teacher an unnoticed young boy None 9. What attracts the slum children? The animals The movies icecream All beautiful things like ship, Sun None 10. Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’? by the burden of studies by the burden of the world by the burden of work All these None 11. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of – the beautiful world the political structure cleaner lanes the civil design None 12. In what sense are the slum chidren different? their IQ their wisdom their dresses because of no access to hope and openness of the world None 13. How can powerful people help the poor children? by fighting with the government by fighting with the powerful by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice by fighting with the rich None 14. What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect? happiness their aspirations their happiness sadness and lack of enthusiasm None 15. What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict? higher officials Government officials Political people Powerful and influential people None 16. What does the poet portray in the poem? young minds playfulness of the children questions of young mind the plight of young children in the slums None 17. ‘Break O break’. What should they break? the donations all bathers the slums the schools None 18. Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’. simile metaphor alliteration personification None 19. The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world. never soon eventually magically None 20. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem. long short optimistic pessimistic None 1 out of 2 Time's up
